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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by neidu2@feddit.nl to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Thanks to @redcalcium@lemmy.institute for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 118 points 6 months ago

This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

Here:

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 months ago

Jeez, that blog post is so much better than that article.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 10 points 6 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree. I've edited the OP accordingly.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I highly recommend her blogs/fediverse posts, she does lots of cool things with computers and ham radio

[-] kronarbob@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"What's stopping you from developing for diagonal mode?"

Diagonal Mode

[-] hyperhopper@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

No, it's the lack of support in web APIs. Every api is based on width and height, viewport width, viewport height. Nothing allows you to find the angle of the display, rotate DOM elements to align, wrap based on diagonal boundaries etc.

[-] Wolfwood1@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Ackshually the social network you're mentioning has changed its name so instead of "Tweets" they should be "Xeets" (like sheets por shits if you prefer).

!I love how people refuse to use its new name!<

[-] Some_Dumb_Goat@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

I've opted for zitter personally

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Spoilers don't work how they do on reddit, you need to type

::: spoiler
Text
:::

[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 65 points 6 months ago
[-] trash@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

I agree with Crab Man.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 57 points 6 months ago

It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It was a mistake to come down from the trees if you ask me. These days there's even people saying we should of stayed in the water were life was simpler.

Of course there's the total extremists who think life was better as a single celled microbe. Those people are always hard to talk to.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

We should HAVE stayed in the water. The real fringe radicals are those who defend the idea that crystals are alive. I think they're lesser lifeforms who don't deserve social security

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 47 points 6 months ago

Is it really 1st of April already

[-] arthur@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

The time is flying fast this year...

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 43 points 6 months ago

Two facts:

  1. I love people doing weird things with tech.
  2. I absolutely hate this.
[-] bia@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I hate it!

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 31 points 6 months ago
[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

This doesn't work on Wayland lol

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

Based, X forever staying relevant.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Time to update "Are we Wayland yet?" With this breaking lack of feature support.

[-] waigl@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.

[-] GermainRobitaille@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its --transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don't know, I haven't been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] rush@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

well expecting to use a tool made for X on Wayland is expecting a boat paddle to move a car.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

I'd rather get three mid range 1440p monitors , stack two horizontal and the third over the two horizontals but offset. It would probably still cost less than one of those ultrawides.

Who am I kidding. My cheap ass would do neither.

[-] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Mods, remove his balls

[-] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 12 points 6 months ago

Someone please tell me how to do this on Wayland. "c/unixporn, here I come!"

[-] rush@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Should be as simple as a shader on-top of Weston or sum 🤷

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago
[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I see their point, but they need to stop microdosing if they lack the self-control or memory to keep the walls from getting a bit runny.

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I never knew people could microdose deliriants

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Benadryl is basically that.

[-] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago
[-] MorganCS@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago
[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Thank God for betteridge's law of headlines

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 6 months ago

Redcalcium provided a much better link. I've edited my post accordingly.

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

I mean everyone can buy this, they only need money.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

EDIT: Uh, this comment used to hold a reply to a completely different comment elsewhere. Disregard.

[-] SGHFan@lemdro.id 3 points 6 months ago

Perfect, just what I need if I set my laptop on my laptop stand the wrong way!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I want to stack 3 like that and be all kewl cyb3r-h4ckz0rz.

[-] hellvolution@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Now I know what I will do when I hack a NSA/CIA computer! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I would constantly be turning my head, even though I wouldn't need to, if my monitor were rotated at a weird angle like that.

[-] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

All us ricers, assemble!

[-] bnjmn@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

If we need to start supporting diagonals, I'm quitting webdev for good

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